Places Ryan Haupt Wants to Go

Trek through the jungle on a boat and a swinging bridge and you'll be rewarded with these refreshing, if pungent, mineral pools.

Was this cave created by Hercules's wrath, the devil, or volcanic activity?

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

A failed infrastructure project now owns this unique moniker.

Each step is a mere four inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

Unfortunately, you can no longer spend a night in this single-person treetop hotel.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

Its walls are adorned with exquisite murals of the natural world, transforming it into an ecologist’s Sistine Chapel.

Inside the dome of this gigantic, Saturn-shaped building is one of the largest planetariums in Asia.